Tell Me About Your Mother investigates matrilineal lineage, domesticity and creativity. Intimate and conversational, seven female artist friends and colleagues of mine—mostly boomers—recount their mother’s creative influence upon them. Additionally, each woman discusses the unique way(s) she distinguished herself from her mother. Many of these artists' mothers, including my own, made sacrifices and compromises regarding their own individual talents and ambitions, because they did not have the choices that the feminist movement afforded women of our generation and beyond.